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📚📚 📖Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.King Jehoahaz
2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3 📚And the king of Egypt 📖 deposed him at Jerusalem, and levied a fine on the land of a hundred talents 📖 of silver and a talent of gold. 4 📚And the king of Egypt made his brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took his brother Jehoahaz and carried him away to Egypt.
King Jehoiakim
5 📚Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. 6 📚Nebuchadnezzar 📖, king of Babylon, came up against him and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon. 7 📚Nebuchadnezzar also took away articles from the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
8 📚Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and what was found in him, see, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
36:5-8 For more about Jehoiakim see Jeremiah chapters 25,26,36.⚜
King Jehoiachin
9 📚Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. 10 📚And at the turn of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent men and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable articles of the house of the LORD, and made his brother 📖 Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
King Zedekiah
11 📚Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 12 📚And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and did not humble himself 📖 before Jeremiah 📖 the prophet speaking words from the mouth of the LORD. 13 📚And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear 📖 allegiance by God, but he stiffened his neck 📖 and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD God of Israel. 14 📚Moreover, all the chief of the priests and the people committed many transgressions, following all the abominations of the nations, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had sanctified in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is destroyed, the people are exiled to Babylon
15 📚And the LORD God of their fathers sent word to them by his messengers, rising early and sending 📖, because he had compassion 📖 on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 📚But they mocked 📖 the messengers of God and despised his words and abused his prophets, until the wrath 📖 of the LORD rose up against his people, until there was no remedy 📖. 17 📚Therefore he brought on them 📖 the king of the Chaldeans 📖, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or maiden, old man, or anyone stooped with age. He gave them all into his hands, 18 📚and all the articles of the house of God, large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his officials. He brought all these to Babylon. 19 📚And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all of its palaces with fire, and destroyed all their valuable articles.
20 📚And he carried away to Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, where they became servants 📖 to him and to his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia 📖. 21 📚This was to fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths 📖. For as long as it lay desolate it kept the Sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.
Emperor Cyrus orders the rebuilding of the temple at Jerusalem
22 📚Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, so that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,
23 📚“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The LORD God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has ordered me to build a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up”.
36:22-23 Ezra 1:1-3. See note there.⚜